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This DVD is now available at Amazon.com. Visit www.amazon.com This video is an excerpt of “The Art of Caregiving”", a 2 hour training DVD for caregivers. Teepa Snow, a nationally acclaimed Alzheimer’s and dementia care specialist, teaches her students how a person with dementia perceives his/her world and how to properly adapt one’s own behavior to increase communication and mutual understanding. Learn Teepa Snow’s effective hands-on techniques to ease your daily caregiving tasks and increase the quality of life for your loved one or patient. In this training DVD, Teepa demonstrates effective approaches to bathing, eating, dressing, transfers, and how to respond to certain types of behaviors in patients with dementia. “The Art of Caregiving” is presented by The Pines Education Institute of SW Florida and facilitated by Teepa Snow, MS, OTR/L, FAOTA. For more information please visit www.pinesofsarasota.com © 2011, Pines Education Institute of SW Florida and Teepa Snow

My baby is 2 months old. I’ve been looking for a part time job. I’ve even been lucky enough to find some for only a few hours a day a few days of the week. Even with that, I still feel like I’m not ready to leave my baby in the care of someone else. I have a college certificate to do office work, and it seems like most of those jobs are during the day. I’d rather try to find something to do on the weekends or maybe in the evenings, and I could leave my baby with my husband. But I’m breastfeeding my baby, and she won’t even take a bottle. I guess I could work with her on that though…And I can’t lv her. when someone else is holding her, she will look around for me, and when she finds me, she stares at me like "mommy get me please." She even does this when she’s with my husband and will cry sometimes if I leave the room. I just love my baby so much. I had a talk with my good friend about it, and she told me that maybe I should try to find a job where I can bring my baby along. She was saying about being a caregiver, or maybe babysitting. But I really don’t have any experience with caregiving, and the only experience I have is with my baby. But she suggested that I try anyway, and that God would bless me becaue I’m thinking of my baby. Should I try?? We went over my expenses together, and I really don’t need a lot. Please give me any ideas or suggestions. I don’t know when I will be able to leave my baby to tell the truth.
i never thought I’d be this way, but when I had my baby everything changed.

is this normal? it totals out to 7 for all these checks. but they want me 4 hours a day at minimum wage : ( would you take this job? its caregiving

I divorced my ex amicably 2 yrs ago. We lived 1 mile from each other, and I didn’t fight for primary custody, we went for joint. All good, right? Well, I moved back in with my parents 18 months ago, and my ex and his new wife and kids moved to the opposite coast. My father and my brother have criticized me repeatedly about not fighting for custody of my son.

This is painful for me. My mother was never any help in caregiving for my son, but my ex had a big family ready and willing to help. Not only was my mother not a help, but she put me through emotional abuse from 12 to about 15. Right around 15 I was old enough to tell her to screw off, lol……but when my son visited me over spring break, my mother called him an asshole, because he was playing with and therefore working up her dogs. He was not mean to the dogs, he was playing.

My father knows my mother is this way, but still holds it against ME that I don’t want my son raised with her. And my bro doesn’t get it.

I had a freind of the family who needed someone to take care of a cousin in need of caregiving. I am certified but have things on my record that cause me to need to go through petitioning process in order to work for a comany that employs caregivers. So the freind of the family knows what is on my background, no felonies but I did not go through a background check qualification and they are okay with this but I am wondering is is illegal. I am working as an independent contracter,caregiver.

Oh boy… I just got off the phone with my brother who’s older than me. I really touched a bad nerve of his. Here’s the story. My mom suffered a mini-stroke during the summer and she’s still living at home. I’m the main caregiver here in the city because my siblings all live outside the city. My brother is the only one who spends the summer here at the cottage so he’s able to look after my mom a couple days a week, while for me it’s every day. Anyway, my sister-in-law talked to my mom about her "options" (living at home, assisted living, nursing home) while my mom was in the hospital. I wasn’t there to discuss this. Tonight, I told my brother how upset I was about this and he was just fuming. He said that they’ve been married 30+ years and that my sister-in-law had the right to discuss the options because she wasn’t making a decision. I told him that my sister-in-law isn’t here to do the caregiving but he then answered that he is so that counts. He said that he refuses to tell her what I said and that I could call her myself to discuss this. He then said that if I do that, she won’t want to talk to anyone in the family anymore. He said that he doesn’t want to limit what she can or can’t say and that he’s tired of filtering everything.

To keep the peace, I wrote him an email telling him that I’m sorry if I offended him (even though he blew up at me but we we’re both tired). I want to maintain our family relationships intact and family support is very important right now. Did I do the right thing?
I also added that I appreciate his help and my sister-in-law’s help (even though I find her nosey at times).

My daughter’s father sent me a parenting time agreement for visitation and what not. He wants to claim her on taxes every other year. He has no job. Sees her 3 days out of 14, at most. We were never married and live in Minnesota. I pay our rent, buy food, clothes, and everything else. Pay all daycare. Carry her insurance. Does he have any right to claim her? He lives with his parents and they do all of her caregiving when its ‘his’ weekend. Have you been through this? What happened?

I’m a college student who has no work experience. However, with that being said- I don’t think someone could call me a ‘lazy bum.’ I helped take care of both my grandfather and grandmother when they were ill with dementia. I comforted them, fed them sometimes, helped them get up off their seats, and watched over them when my mother needed a break from caregiving.

I don’t know if that’s even relevant to work experience though- But it was something that crossed my mind that maybe I should mention on a job interview? I’ve already been on one but I never mentioned that because I didn’t find it relevant to applying to a grocery store. Anyways, when I did apply to that grocery store the manager seemed to like me- I shook hands with her, she showed me around, I asked her tons of questions about what a norm day is like there to show her I was deeply interested in learning all the ins and outs. She never called me back though so I guess someone else got the job position. She did clearly tell me at the end of the interview that she still has several other people to interview but that she would call me up and let me know if I got the job or not.

So if you were in my shoes … and you lived in a state where the economy is litterally in the tank. The unemployment rate here is 12%- what would you do?

I’m 15 and I really need a job. I live in Lake Forest CA and I’m looking like a caregiving or babysitters job because I grew up taking care of my brothers and sister. I also take care of my house when my parents are working. I need the pay to help support myself and my school needs. Money is tight with my parents right now. If someone can help me get started, that would be great.

How long does it usually take? I just finished 3 years of school for nursing pre reqs so im not specialized in anything but i did get AS degree. I am also an army vet. I also have experience in caregiving, yet no ones hiring, and if they are they dont call me back, idk what happened, i dress well, present myself well, i guess so many ppl are competing for jobs in CA……its only been 2 weeks but how long does it usually take to get a job thanks